Bugs in Hello World
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Bugs in Hello World
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Re: Bugs in Hello World
#2Well that's precisely the mindset of C/C++. You have to think by yourself about everything that can go wrong with your code. And, man, lots of things can go wrong.
I find more modern languages so much less exhausting to use to write correct code.
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#3Bravo! I enjoyed this.
Re: Bugs in Hello World
#4Well that's precisely the mindset of C/C++. You have to think by yourself about everything that can go wrong with your code. And, man, lots of things can go wrong. I find more modern languages so much less exhausting to use to write correct code.
Considering that awk and TCL do not have the bug in question, while java, ruby, and node.js do, I'm not sure this can be framed in terms of modernity
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#5And to catch such a thing in C, if anyone was wondering, you would have to fflush stdout.
Re: Bugs in Hello World
#6Well that's precisely the mindset of C/C++. You have to think by yourself about everything that can go wrong with your code. And, man, lots of things can go wrong. I find more modern languages so much less exhausting to use to write correct code.
And the mindset can be to treat such conditions as "Don't Care" to allow the C/C++ code to generate more optimized assembly.
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#7Even Golang de facto suffers from this. I don't think I can name a time I saw someone check the return value of fmt.Print or log.Print. Not checking the return value still seems the the "right" thing to do.
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#8And not an edge case in the slightest either.
I'm going to have to go back over all the print statements I've ever written now
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#9Well that's precisely the mindset of C/C++. You have to think by yourself about everything that can go wrong with your code. And, man, lots of things can go wrong. I find more modern languages so much less exhausting to use to write correct code.
Yes. First you learn to 'code stuff' and as your experience progresses in that language you merely learn more and more of the ways it can be wrong, and then you worry more, and have to overthink every little thing.
The hidden costs are enormous and to this day still not very well accounted for.
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#10And not an edge case in the slightest either. I'm going to have to go back over all the print statements I've ever written now
Just wait til DAY OF THE SEAL.